Twaddle

Rating: 4/10 (15 September 1999)

Cutesy and pointless, there's little to recommend about this ponderous film besides the Ennio Morricone score and Clarence Williams III's performance as Jelly Roll Morton (expect that he's trapped in a dueling-pianos sequence that just seems to go on forever).
Tim Roth tries valiantly, but his performance is hampered by the fact that he has no character to play; his "1900" is more a labored metaphor than a human being, and there's little this talented actor can do with the weak script (which occasionally has painful bouts of English-as-a-second-language-itis.
But hey, I didn't like "Cinema Paradiso" either, so what do I know...